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Document
#164; April 28, 1953
To Paul Alfred Hodgson
Series:
EM, AWF, Name Series
; Category:
Personal
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
I: Charting a New Course; January 1953 to April 1953
Chapter
2: "A number of misunderstandings": Party and International Struggles
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Dear P.A.:1 Mamie and I were glad to get your fine note, and to hear all the news. We had not known of Brit's death, which saddened us.2 But I am glad that the period of readjustment is about over, and that Anne has managed so admirably.
I have just looked up my last letter to you, and I am amazed that I ever thought I had troubles in January.3 The pressures of which I complained then are magnified now a thousand fold. Fortunately, the new team in Washington seems at last to be settling down to its job, and things are, I think, running more smoothly than at first.
Barbara and the grandchildren have been with us for six weeks or so. The children are lively and full of high spirits, and keep us constantly amused. They have taken to the White House life like veterans. They cycle madly up and down the drives and love the swimming pool. As a matter of fact, when they were with us in Augusta I asked them several times which they liked best, the White House or Augusta. Their invariable answer was "Well, we like to swim." Barbara is taking them back to Highland Falls today, however, much to Mamie's and my sorrow.4
Please give my best to all our classmates whom you meet, and to Anne and to you our affectionate and warm regard, As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Paul Alfred Hodgson,
28 April 1953.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 164.
World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/164.cfm
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